Machaonia cymosa (Sw.) Griseb.

Machaonia cymosa (Sw.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 348. 1861
Lip pi a cymosa Sw. Prodr. 93. 1 .
Machaonia cymosa var. glabrescens S. Moore, Jour. Bot . 68: 1 12. 1930.
A low shrub, tinbranches gray or reddish-brown, the branchlets slender, sparsely puberuItut or glabrous, sometimes spinose, the internodes short; stipules 1-1.5 mm. long, triangular, acute; leaves opposite, the petioles 1-2 mm. long, the blades orbicular, oval, or rhombicovate, 0.8-2.5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. wide, rounded to acutish at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, sometimes apiculate, chartaceous, green abovi scaberulous, paler be-
neath, scabrous or short-pilose when young, becoming glabrate, the Lateral nerves obscure,
3 or 4 on each side, arcuate; inflorescence many-flowered, 1-2 cm. broad, the branche puberulent or short-pilose, the flowers sessile or short pedicellate, the bracts linear, often foliaceous; hypanthium turbinate, 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the I calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm. long, very acute, glabrous; corolla 2.5-3 mm. long, glabrous outside, the lobes oval, less than half as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers exserted; fruit narrowly obpyramidal, 6 mm. long or shorter.
Type locality: Jamaica. I Distribution : Jamaica.
Ii.i. i rsTRATlONS: Sloane, Hist. Jam. />/. 174, f. 3, 4; Syrnb. Ant. 5: 513. /:
The form described as var. glabrest rus S. Moore is merely somewhat less abundantly pubescent, especially in the inflorescence, than the type, and is scarcely worths of even varietal rank.